Beijing-bound MAS plane carrying 239 people missing as of 20 mins ago.

reply to post by nightstalker78

Here you go, that may be easier since their site is likely going to get hammered while this is "news":

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reply to post by DrHammondStoat

I was referring to the map with the red line that shows all the turns that go up the northern corridor, being presented all over the place as the factual, actual path that the plane took. And, said that map was improper, because they had no evidence that map was actually the path the plane took. It could have been anything.

The circlular map, in fact, is the one to be more believed, because it is the only known contact points, and non-speculative.

So, we agree.

Libertygal
reply to post by DrHammondStoat

 

I was referring to the map with the red line that shows all the turns that go up the northern corridor, being presented all over the place as the factual, actual path that the plane took. And, said that map was improper, because they had no evidence that map was actually the path the plane took. It could have been anything.

The circlular map, in fact, is the one to be more believed, because it is the only known contact points, and non-speculative.

So, we agree.

Oh Ok, I apologise , my mistake, I should have paid more attention!

reply to post by EnhancedInterrogator


Awesome, thanks!

Don't really think this anything though. I'm thinking the "authorities" need to keep their yaps shut until they find the plane.

I can't imagine what the familes are going through.

I bet the debris of Australian coast isn't the plane.

reply to post by nightstalker78


I hope there is hi res pictures somewhere as well...... because it looks like waves to me..... whats the difference between that image and the wave on the left of this picture>?

geezz I hope they right.

reply to post by AthlonSavage

You don't happen to work at the sports-book counter at a casino in Las Vegas, do you?

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I'm with you.

See my post above.

reply to post by DrHammondStoat


It's ok, np.

reply to post by nightstalker78


Unfortunately, If I had to put money on it, I would go with NSA "digital intercepts" inadvertently leads to collecting whale research transponder signal meta-data, and that leads to them acquiring satellite imagery of whale mating practices, and then reconnaissance person reviewing the imagery mistakes it for MH370.

I certainly, hope it is actually MH370 debris - so we can start the process of actually figuring out what "really" happened. But, my hopes are not as high as before they released the satellite images. The Chinese satellite images looked more convincing - maybe because they are better with Photoshop or something.

reply to post by EnhancedInterrogator

Kind of sketchy that for the last 2 weeks Tomnod.com(owned by DigitalGlobe) has presented pictures of everywhere else on the planet that are rather clear, than we get these ones produced by the same company for the Australian Geospatial Intel Orginization yet nothing is discernible.

Somebody had to have fogged these pictures so they don't show actual capability or the Aussie's went with the econo plan.

reply to post by OatDelphi

Yeah, I was just thinking maybe their satellite was bought at Walmart or something.

Ecologists say we're choking our oceans with trash and other man-made items. Maybe we're searching so hard that everything afloat is beginning to look like pieces of the airliner.

reply to post by EnhancedInterrogator

Excellent! Thanks SO much for posting the images! Was having a terrible time connecting.

They did say other, smaller debris was also close by, but refused to say what, and how many pieces. It certainly does appear, in the first thumbnails you linked, there may well be other unidentified debris. The second thumbnail does show something of color, heartbreakingly, unless it was color enhanced.

That's all I can say...

But, thanks for the effort, much appreciated!

Dont buy suicide!
Whatever happened it aint suicide!
More likely a hijack that went tits up. Hence the turn and
direction. Like the pilot was making sure that the plane could not
be crashed into a city/other. Pilot/s might be heroes!
Or
Did the plane land somewhere and what was onboard
off loaded and then the plane took off again and ditched?
Its all very very strange!!
This whole episode will now give the ME's ideas of their own!

could it be possible that the plane had a catastrophic failure and incapacitated every persin on it? perhaps the pilot in his last moments programmed the auto pilot to fly to a remote area where the plane would crash without collateral damage?

I see a lot of talk about pilot suicide, but I think programming the plane to ditch in a remote area so no one else gets hurt is plausible, and was a last ditch effort once oxygen supplies exhausted.

Has anyone ever tried to find a bobber after your fishing line broke and it floated away? This must be similar, since the Satellite photos were generated some time ago, and storms have arrived since then. I'm going to bed. Maybe when I wake up in 6 hours something more definitive will be known. Night all...
-cwm

reply to post by RP2SticksOfDynamite

I am standing by my opinion that pilot was nothing but professional until and when something is shown to prove otherwise. And I mean something more substantial than, "Oooh, he was a mooslim!"

He acted, and lived his life as a professional, and he deserves that respect until there is any concrete reason not to give it to him. He may have given his life to try to save the lives of others, and nothing beyond speculation has said otherwise.

There is no reason to demonize this man. None.

reply to post by carewemust

Yep, ironically I think they actually mentioned on CNN earlier today that this area is known for natural "collection" of garbage in the ocean - due to prevailing winds and currents. The one in the Pacific is famous.

• Indian Ocean garbage patch in the Indian Ocean Gyre
  
• Great Pacific garbage patch in the North Pacific Ocean Gyre
  
• North Atlantic garbage patch in the North Atlantic Ocean Gyre